Farmers will be ruined if BJP is brought to power: KCR in Munugode
He said that for the past few months, the TRS has been formulating how to knock BJP off-the central government.
Hyderabad: Chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) on Saturday said that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power, the first thing it will do is to install electricity meters in farms to force farmers into taking more loans. Speaking in Munugode constituency, he alleged that farmers will eventually have to sell their land.
“Since the BJP came to power eight years ago, have they achieved anything useful? They’ve sold the airports, organisations, and roads. The only thing that is left is the farmers, their farms and crops. Farmers have to understand that by installing electrical meters on the farms, they will subsequently increase rates of fertiliser, forcing farmers to give up agriculture,” said KCR, while speaking at the public meeting in Munugode.
Taking a swipe at the Prime Minister, KCR said that “Modi’s friends will come in and buy the lands”, and then call it ‘corporate farming.’ “The same farmers will be again employed as workers on the same farms,” the Telangana chief minister added.
Speaking at the meeting titled ‘Praja Deevena Sabha’, that was organised by the TRS in the Munugode constituency, KCR was joined on stage by state Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Venkat Reddy. The CPI on Saturday had announced that they would be supporting KCR and the TRS in the crucial upcoming Munugode by-poll.
He addressed the CPI leader and said that they should unite for a common cause of defeating BJP. “I hope that CPI, and CPI(M) will work with TRS from Munugode to Delhi and fight against the BJP,” he said.
“Nalgonda was once rife with fluoride in the water. Even the World Health Organisation had said before TRS came to power that the whole district will become uninhabitable if clean water is not brought in through pipes. Then, the state government or central government did not pay any attention,” KCR said.
